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Criteria for Emergency Room Negligence

Each year approximately 100 million visits are made to the emergency room across the country. According to a Harvard study, the emergency room has the most preventable harmful activities and events than any other part of a hospital.

Author: Sara Goldstein

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Emergency rooms are one of the most stressful workplaces because of the high volume of patients and people constantly coming and going with very serious illnesses and injuries. It can get very chaotic with doctors and nurses running from patient to patient, treating individuals back to back. Because of the high traffic in emergency rooms, healthcare professionals can get very confused and forgetful and that is when errors and negligence happens.

However, a busy night does not mean negligence can, or should, be forgiven. They are committed to giving the best possible care to their patients and practice within standard guidelines and protocol of the establishment. When they are not, patients suffer, resulting in pain and suffering, lost wages due to missing work, or high medical bills. Healthcare negligence can ruin lives and in some cases, even cause death.

When emergency room negligence occurs, you may have a medical malpractice claim. Malpractice refers to a medical professional ignoring or neglecting standard medical procedures and rules and the patient suffers as a result.

Common types of emergency room negligence include:
• Late or wrong diagnosis
• Failing to communicate diagnosis of a medical condition
• Lack of monitoring a patient
• Incorrect initial assessment of the patient
• Failure to treat a serious condition
• Failure to order appropriate medical tests
• Failure to perform tests on patients
• Faulty medical equipment
• Inaccurate laboratory tests
• Surgical errors
• Careless performance of an exam or procedure
• Contaminated blood transfusions
• Prescribing wrong medication

If you have been a victim of emergency room negligence in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area, please visit the website of Weiss & Paarz, P.C.

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New Jersey Medical Malpractice Lawyers at Weiss & Paarz, P.C. believe that in order to maintain the expertise needed to be consistently successful, we must focus 100% of our professional time on handling medical malpractice cases only.

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Criteria for Emergency Room Negligence